Wednesday, January 17, 2018

What does -50 degrees look like?



"In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles east of Moscow — students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside."

"In the village of Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, state-owned Russian television showed the mercury falling to the bottom of a thermometer that was only set up to measure down to minus 50 degrees. In 2013, Oymyakon recorded an all-time low of minus 71 degrees Celsius (minus 98 Fahrenheit)."

5 comments:

edutcher said...

I doubt that much of the face would be showing at -50.

I also doubt you put on false eyelashes.

ampersand said...

The record low in Chicago was -27 F on January 20, 1985. It was a Sunday, a new job and I had to work. I would run my car engine for an hour every other hour. If that engine didn't start I worried I'd be stuck there until the thaw.

Amartel said...

I agree the photo looks faked. The clothes look flimsy and fashionable and the person has Iphone earbuds. OTOH, there's a lot of oil money in Russia.

ndspinelli said...

amper, I remember that winter. We had just moved from Chicago to Madison.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Are her eyeballs frozen?